Democratic Senator Kamala Harris wants you to stop eating meat and using plastic straws in a bid to fight climate change.

Senator Kamala Harris, a Democratic presidential candidate, wants you to eat less meat and stop using plastic straws. Why? Because she claims it will curb climate change.

For the record, the Earth’s climate has changing periodically for millions of years — pre-dating man’s existence and the advent of hamburgers and plastic straws.

“I love cheeseburgers from time to time,” Harris said last night at a CNN town hall on the “climate crisis.” However, Harris claims that eating meat has been linked to climate change.

Accordingly, if elected president, Harris says she would change U.S. dietary guidelines and have food labels that state that red-meat consumption harms the environment. (You can’t make this up.)

“Climate change has been linked to agriculture and the over-consumption of red meat and also the overproduction of crops,” Harris said.

(Source: CNN)

The junior senator from California was responding to this question from an audience member: “If elected, will you support changes in dietary guidelines? And how will you plan on implementing the changes so that people effectively change their diets [to curb climate change]?”

Harris replied: “Yes. [It should be] a real priority at the highest level of government” to limit meat consumption “because we have a problem in America.”

She added: “Just to be very honest with you, I love cheeseburgers from time to time. I just do. But there has to be also what we do in terms of creating incentives that we will eat in a healthy way, that we will encourage moderation, and that we will be educated about the effects of our eating habits on our environment. And we have to do a much better job of that. The government has to do a much better job of that.”